#I know barrister isn't actually a church title but I literally can't remember any of the other ones right now

[nightmareonpeachstreet]

one of my favorite strange church anecdotes I witnessed as a child was from the wife of one of our important guys at church (idk if he was like a deacon or a barrister or what for the longest time I thought those were people's last names not like titles)

she got up in front of the congregation and told us about how she burned her hand making cookies the other day, and I remember that she very specifically pointed out the moral of this story, and it was "oven mitts are not reliable, but Jesus is"

and this was not a joke. she said it so so seriously and everyone was listening so so seriously as well. this wasn't spur of the moment either our pastor like specifically had a section in the sermon for her to tell us about how Jesus is more trustworthy than an oven mitt.